Golf Quotes - Page 9

• Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

  Art Spander

  Games, Moral, Manners

  Mark Mulvoy, Art Spander (1977). “Golf: the passion and the challenge”, Prentice Hall

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• If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

  Fred Beck

  Shells, Ears, Picks

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• If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Smart, Stupid, Forget

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• Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

  Harvey Penick

  Lucky, Bottles, Aspirin

  Bud Shrake, Harvey Penick (2011). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  Hal Linden

  Play, Violin, Painful

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• My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

  Bruce Lansky

  Games, Feelings, Euphoria

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Never admit that your back goes out more than you do

  Joan Rivers

  Funny Golf, Great Golf, Golfing

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• Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

  Buddy Hackett

  Fun, Strange Places, Naked

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• A hungry dog hunts best.

  Lee Trevino

  Dog, Hungry, Hunts

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Damontre Moore". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.

  Bob Hope

  Hope, Games, People

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• As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

  Fred Couples

  Swings, Technique, Squat

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• Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

  Abba Eban

  Humility, Futility Of Life, Games

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• A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Purpose, Towns, Idiot

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• I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

  Sam Snead

  Games, Shops, Golfing

  "The lessons I've learned: better golf the Sam Snead way".

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Games, Racing, Progress

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• The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

  George Duncan

  Play, Way, Bloody

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• When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

  Mac O'Grady

  Memories, Emotion, Scar

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• You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

  Doug Ford, Jr.

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• Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

  Grantland Rice

  Swings, Dandelions, Cigar

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• What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

  Lily Tomlin

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• Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

  Arnold Haultain

  Attitude, Games, Mind

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

  John Updike

  Men, Wife, Faithful

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.126, Random House

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• Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

  Bob Hope

  President, Vices, Looks

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• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

  Grantland Rice

  Years, Play, Nineteen

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• Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Games, Ulcers

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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